St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-28
THE TARIFF FIGHT.
Programme Mapped Out and
Everything Ready.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-Ihe Star
this evening, commenting on the prob
able tariff fight in the house this winter,
says: 1t is probably as certain as any,
i thing in the future can be that tariff
bill will pass the house this session.
There will be fight. 1t will begin al
over. The plan of campaign adopted at
sists of series of sharp battles and re-
treats. The majority of the d Democrats
will start out to get as much tariff re-
ductiOn and as little protection as they
can. But they are prepared to retreat
sooner than take defeat. Whenever
they find that they cannot get what
they would like, they will compromise,
taking the best they can get.
They will follow this plan through
out. Compromising as to every
detail ii they have secured bill that
can pass the house, while starting out
with the avOwal of antagonism to pro-
lection as principle, and maintaining
that position to the last, they will go so
far in the concessions probably as to ac-
cept bill for which Mr.. Randall and
his followers can vote without doing
violence to their protection theories.
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make considerable reduction in the
revenue. The proposition going into
the committee will be for pretty stiff
backed tariff reform without any recog-
milton of protection principles.
IT'S MANAGEMENT,
it is understood, will be directed by
Mr.. Carlisle as much as If he were the
chairman of the ways and means COM
mittee. The committee go into their
work with their course already marked
out for them. Mr.. Gay will go on the
committee to represent Mr.. Randall, un
less the speaker changes his mind, and
the two factions of the party will proba-
bly, come to an understanding of
what is to be done = before they
get into the house. The bill will
be taken up item by item, and
an agreement or compromise reached at
each step. Probably no one reduction
will be made just as at first proposed,
but each item will probably remain in
the bill in modified form. A great
effort will be made to consider the mat
ter dispassiOnately, and not to insist
upon anything that would cause a seri-
Gus disagreement. Mr.. Carlisle and Mr..
Randall have talked the matter over
very carefully, and they both expect
that an agreement will be reached, and
that they can pass over their differences
of opinion without remark. The bill
will certainly not be all that is. desired,
but the president aid the majority of his
party can truthfully assert that they
have tried to go further. and that they
have done the best they could. The i'm
pOrtant point will he that the revenue
will be reduced; as to the surplus that
is already in the treasury,it will be the adj
ministratiOn policy to let it stay as bank
account against necessary demands.
and as long as it is not growing larger it
will not be dangerous. The chances are,
however, that both houses of congress
will pass bill making pretty heavy de-
mands OH it. The
RLAIR EDUCATIONAL BILL
is almost certain to pass through both
branches of congress and be sent to the
president. 1t was defeated in the last
congress through being smothered in
the committee and buried in the calen-
dar. This plan can hardly succeed
again. 1t is almost sure to pass. 1t is
about as certain of being vetoed by the
president. The president has intimated
as much quite broadly, and some who
ought to know his views on the subject
declare that the bill cannot get his sig
nature. The chances for a large ex-
penditure for Notifications are not
promising. The appropriations will be
kept as low as possible in all branches.